Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 List of Abbreviations Chapter 3 1 Introduction Chapter 4 2 "Masters and Servants" The Foundations of Patriarchy, 1791-1867 Chapter 5 3 With "Liberality and Kindness": The Genesis of Paternalism, 1868-1891 Chapter 6 4 "You Are Not Paid to Think": The Collapse of Paternalism, 1868-1891 Chapter 7 5 "A Personal Interest in the Prosperity of Their Employers": Bureaucratic Hegemony and the Origins of Social Patriarchy, 1914-1922 Chapter 8 6 Epilogue Chapter 9 Notes Chapter 10 Appendix A: Children's Employment Commission (1862) Chapter 11 Appendix B: Factory and Workshops Acts Commission Part 12 Select Bibliography Part 13 Index Part 14 About the Authors
William G. Staples is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. Clifford L. Staples is professor of sociology at the University of North Dakota.
Power, Profits, and Patriarchy is an outstanding addition to the
literature of labor history, industrial sociology, and gender
studies. Within the context of a brisk and specific narrative, it
deepens understanding of the actual processes by which industrial
capitalism began, flourished, and eventually became transmogrified.
Resting on exhaustive historical research and thorough engagement
with the relevant historical and sociological literature, Power,
Profits and Patriarchy provides unique and arresting perspectives
on both the historical development of and contemporary crisis in
industrial capitalism.
*Robert H. Zieger, Distinguished Professor of History, University
of Florida*
Power, Profits, and Patriarchy is an exhaustively researched study
that clearly demonstrates how the patriarchal social distinctions
characterizing different factory regimes shaped the relations
between capital and labor and ultimately molded the formation of
their collective interests. It is a theoretically sophisticated
analysis that shows how both the material workings of an industry
and assumptions about class, gender and age were central to the
social organization of work in England during the Industrial
Revolution.
*Sonya Rose, University of Michigan*
A well-documented study of the social relations of the workplace
and how these were shaped by gender assumptions. Power, Profits,
and Patriarchy contributes to our understanding of the sex
segregation of work and the ways hierarchical relations of class
and gender reinforced and reproduced each other at the workplace.
No one can read this book and continue to doubt that the
development of capitalism was a gendered process.
*American Journal of Sociology*
Power, Profits, and Patriarchy is a dazzling dance of history and
theory. Entering the hidden abode of production of one, carefully
situated, English manufacturing firm, Staples and Staples show how
work is embedded in a political regime, reconfigured across three
centuries through the struggles it organizes—struggles in which
class and patriarchy are inextricably intertwined. Following in the
footsteps of Karl Marx, they go beyond his economic analysis of the
labor process to give the politics of production a new centrality
both in people's lives as well as in social theory. This is
ethnohistory at its very best!
*Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley*
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